Myers EXPLORING PSYCHOLOGY (6th Edition in Modules)

Module 27

Sexual Motivation

James A. McCubbin, PhDClemson University

Worth Publishers

Sexual Motivation

Sex is a physiologically based motive, like hunger, but it is more affected by

learning and values.

Sexual Motivation

Sexual Response Cycle the four stages of sexual

responding described by Masters and Johnson excitement plateau orgasm resolution

Sexual Motivation

Refractory Period resting period after orgasm, during

which a man cannot achieve another orgasm

Sexual Disorder a problem that consistently impairs

sexual arousal or functioning

Sexual Motivation

Estrogen a sex hormone, secreted in greater

amounts by females than by males

in nonhuman females, levels peak during ovulation, promoting sexual receptivity

Sexual Motivation

Testosterone most important of the male sex

hormones both males and females have it,

but the extra testosterone in males stimulates growth of sex organs in the fetus and development of the male sex characteristics during puberty

Forces Affecting Sexual Motivation

Sexual Motivation

Births to unwed parents

Sexual Motivation

Sexual Orientation an enduring sexual attraction

toward members of either one’s own sex (homosexual orientation) or the other sex (heterosexual orientation)

Sexual Motivation

Sexual Motivation